The Company, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, was incorporated in 1999. MedAssets provides technology-enabled products and services which together help mitigate the increasing financial pressures faced by hospitals and health systems. These include the increasing complexity of healthcare reimbursement, rising levels of bad debt and uncompensated care and significant increases in supply utilization and operating costs. Our solutions are designed to improve operating margin and cash flow for hospitals and health systems. We believe implementation of our full suite of solutions has the potential to improve customer operating margins by 1.5% to 5.0% of revenues by increasing revenue capture and decreasing supply costs. The sustainable financial improvements provided by our solutions occur in a matter of months and can be quantified and confirmed by our customers. Our solutions integrate with our customers’ existing operations and enterprise software systems and require minimal upfront costs or capital expenditures.
According to the American Hospital Association, average community hospital operating margins were 4.3% in 2007, and approximately 34% of community hospitals had negative total margins during the first half of 2009. We believe that hospital and health system operating margins will remain under long-term and continual financial pressure due to shortfalls in available government reimbursement, managed care pricing leverage, and continued escalation of supply utilization and operating costs.
Our technology-enabled solutions are delivered primarily through company-hosted software, or software as a service (“SaaS”), supported by enterprise-wide sales, account management, implementation services and consulting. We employ an integrated, customer-centric approach to delivering our solutions which, when combined with the ability to deliver measurable financial improvement, has resulted in high retention of our large health system customers, and, in turn, a predictable base of stable, recurring revenue. Our ability to expand the breadth and value of our solutions over time has allowed us to develop strong relationships with our customers’ senior management teams.
Our success in improving our customers’ ability to increase revenue and manage supply expense has driven substantial growth in our customer base and has allowed us to expand sales of our products and services to existing customers. These factors have contributed to our compounded annual net revenue growth rate of approximately 36.4% over our last five fiscal years. Our customer base currently includes over 125 health systems and, including those that are part of our health system customers, more than 3,300 acute care hospitals and more than 40,000 ancillary or non-acute provider locations. Our Revenue Cycle Management segment currently has more than 2,200 hospital customers, which makes us one of the largest providers of revenue cycle management solutions to hospitals. Our Spend Management segment manages approximately $24 billion of annual supply spend by healthcare providers, has more than 1,700 hospital customers and includes the third largest group purchasing organization, or GPO, in the United States.
We deliver our solutions through two business segments, Revenue Cycle Management (“RCM”) and Spend Management (“SM”):
Revenue Cycle Management. Our RCM segment provides a comprehensive suite of products and services spanning the hospital revenue cycle workflow — from patient access and financial responsibility, charge capture and integrity, pricing analysis, claims processing and denials management, payor contract management, revenue recovery and accounts receivable services. Our workflow solutions, together with our data management, decision support, performance analytics, and compliance and audit tools, increase revenue capture and cash collections, reduce accounts receivable balances and increase regulatory compliance. Based on our analysis of certain customers that have implemented a portion of our products and services, we estimate that implementation of our full suite of revenue cycle management solutions has the potential to increase a typical health system’s net patient revenue by 1.0% to 3.0%.
Spend Management. Our SM segment provides a comprehensive suite of technology-enabled services that help our customers manage their non-labor expense categories. Our solutions lower supply and medical device costs and utilization by managing the procurement process through our group purchasing organization’s portfolio of contracts, consulting services and business analytics and intelligence tools. Based on our analysis of certain customers that have implemented a portion of our products and services, we estimate that implementation of our full suite of spend management solutions has the potential to decrease a typical health system’s supply expenses by 3% to 10%, which equates to an increase in operating margin of 0.5% to 2.0% of revenue.
We believe that we are uniquely positioned to identify, analyze, implement and maintain customer-specific solutions for hospitals and health systems as they continue to face the financial pressures that are endemic and long-term to the healthcare industry and particularly acute in today’s economic climate. We have leveraged the scale and scope of our revenue cycle management and spend management businesses to develop a strong understanding and unique base of content regarding the industry in which hospitals and health systems operate. The solutions that we develop with the benefit of this insight are designed to strengthen the discrete financial and operational weaknesses across revenue cycle management and spend management operations.
Our Strategy
Our mission is to partner with hospitals and health systems to enhance their financial strength through improved operating margins and cash flows. Key elements of our strategy include:
Continually improving and expanding our suite of solutions. We intend to continue to leverage our research and development team, proprietary databases and industry knowledge to further integrate our products and services and develop new financial improvement solutions for hospitals and healthcare providers. In addition to our internal research and development, we also intend to expand our portfolio of solutions through strategic partnerships and acquisitions that will allow us to offer incremental financial improvement to healthcare providers. Research and development of new products and successful execution and integration of future acquisitions are integral to our overall strategy as we continue to expand our portfolio of products.
Further penetrating our existing customer base. We intend to leverage our long-standing customer relationships and large and experienced sales team to increase the penetration rate for our comprehensive suite of solutions with our existing hospital and health system customers. We estimate the addressable market for existing customers to be a $4.1 billion revenue opportunity for our existing products and services. Within our large and diverse customer base, many of our hospital and health system customers utilize solutions from only one of our segments. The vast majority of our customers use less than the full suite of our solutions.
Attracting new customers. We intend to utilize our large and experienced sales team to aggressively seek new customers. We estimate that the addressable market for new customers for our revenue cycle management and spend management solutions represents a $2.8 billion revenue opportunity for our existing products and services. We believe that our comprehensive and flexible suite of solutions and ability to demonstrate financial improvement opportunities through our highly-consultative sales process will continue to allow us to successfully differentiate our solutions from those of our competitors.
Leveraging operating efficiencies and economies of scale and scope. The design, scalability and scope of our solutions enable us to efficiently deploy a customer-specific solution for our customers principally through web-based SaaS technologies. As we add new solutions to our portfolio and new customers, we expect to leverage our current capabilities to reduce the average cost of providing our solutions to our customers.
Maintaining an internal environment that fosters a strong and dynamic culture. Our management team strives to maintain an organization with individuals who possess a strong work ethic and high integrity, and who are recognized by their dependability and commitment to excellence. We believe that this results in attracting employees who are driven to achieve our long-term mission of being the recognized leader in the markets in which we compete. We believe that dynamic, customer-centric thinking will be a catalyst for our continued growth and success.
Business Segments
We deliver our solutions through two business segments, Revenue Cycle Management and Spend Management.







